Jan Luley has studied jazz piano in Holland and has been performing professionally all across Europe for the last 25 years. With his band or as accompanying musician Jan has performed over 1400 shows and concerts at festivals and in famous clubs as well as appearing on radio and TV numerous times. His virtuosity and entertaining performances, coupled together with dazzling creativity, make up his exceptional musical ability. Whether it is swing, blues, boogie-woogie, modern jazz or Caribbean rhythms, Jan is a master of diverse styles all with a touch of New Orleans music feeling.
From 1999 till 2009 Jan was a member of the well known German Band “The Barrelhouse Jazzband” (founded in 1953). His piano work with this group always added that special sound to please audiences all over Europe.
In 2010 Jan releases his critically acclaimed CD “PIANO TALES” and launches his solo career. Jan can also be seen and heard traveling with his trio. They are three virtuosos in one inspiring combination.
Jan’s new CD “PIANO TALES” gives the listener the feeling that they are actually in New Orleans on world famous Bourbon Street experiencing the taste and culture of the many styles of piano played there. Whether it is swing, blues, Creole and more, on his new CD you can hear all these classic styles being played with a fresh and vibrant energy.
Luley was born 1971 as a son whose family has a long music tradition. He performed for the first time, when he was twelve years old, playing Ragtime.
At the age of 15 he made his first professional steps in his fathers New Orleans and
Dixie band „ The Hot Swing Company“. In 1993 he started as sideman of several internationally
well-known artists such as Angela Brown, Gene “Mighty Flea” Conners,
Big Jay McNeely or Janice Harrington. He performed with bluesmen like Li ttle Willie
Li ttlefield, Louisiana Red and Albie Donnelly and with artists from New Orleans like
John and Lillian Bou tté, Leroy Jones, Lucien Barbarin
and many more.
Again and again he was a ttracted by the city on the
banks of the Mississippi, where jazz was born. There he
went several times to walk through the dense atmosphere
of barrelhouse blues and Creole rhythms, following the traces of old piano giants such as
James Booker, Professor Longhair and Eddie Bo. But also the music of later piano players like Herbie
Hancock, Errol Garner or Hampton Hawes belong to 
Luley‘s in fluences.
In 2004 he founded his record label Luleymusic Records. He
is music producer and promoter of festivals, concerts, workshops and other events. He also works as a
coach, composer, arranger and mentor for artists and projects of miscellaneous culturel areas.
